I think you need to have a usb port in your router to have it become a network storage device.

I'm just trying to boost radio power output to increase range.

Apple;517611 wrote:In layman's terms, what is the end result... is this what it takes to share a hard drive wirelessly?

No. Sharing a hard drive wirelessly is pretty easy depending on what kind of hard drive it is (internal, external usb, network drive, etc).